Jonathan P SERRANO

Introduction

Jonathan P Serrano is a senior partner of PUNOLAW (“firm”) and heads the banking and finance practice of the firm.

Prior to joining the firm in 2005, Serrano worked with Baker & Mckenzie (Manila office), and was seconded to the Baker & Mckenzie Sydney office, where he worked with the latter’s banking and finance practice group.

His practice focuses on banking and financial institutions regulation, project and infrastructure finance, acquisition finance, notes/bond issuances, syndicated lending transactions, M&As, real estate project structuring and development, public-private partnerships and corporate/commercial law. Serrano has advised project developers in various industries, including energy, infrastructure and real estate, on their financing transactions with both local and overseas lenders. He has extensive experience in acting as counsel for foreign clients in major M&A transactions, and advises both foreign and local clients on structuring of investments, as well as joint venture and partnership issues.

He has been engaged as a public-private partnership Key Legal Expert (Philippines) of the Philippine Public-Private Partnership Centre in connection with the development of critical infrastructure facilities, and currently acts as corporate secretary for several Philippine companies engaged in energy, infrastructure, real estate and medical services – regularly advising them on corporate governance and regulatory issues.

In addition to his transactional and advisory work, Serrano has been a resource speaker on financing Philippine infrastructure and power projects in various conferences, and is consistently cited as a leading lawyer in the field of project finance by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) 1000. Serrano is also a professor of Philippine Corporation Law.

Recent Representative Engagements

• Mitsui & Co in connection with its acquisition (via tender offer) of shares in Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, one of the major conglomerates in the Philippines engaged in various industries
• PSALM Corporation and ADB in connection with the bidding for the privatization of hydropower facilities in Laguna, Philippines
• Vena Energy in connection with several project financing transactions of renewable energy power plants in the Philippines
• Rockwell Land Corporation in connection with the development of several mixed-use condominium and horizontal projects all over Luzon and the Visayas, Philippines

Education

• University of the Philippines College of Law
• Juris Doctor, 1994
• University of the Philippines School of Economics
• Bachelor of Science in Economics, 1990